Futurehealth WinterBrain Workshop by Nathaniel Zinsser.
This is a workshop on bringing out one's best performance under highly pressurized conditions based on 20 years of work with elite performers and 30 years of study in meditation and martial arts.

Participants will learn a practical vocabularly for addressing the dynamics of stress management and a series of practical exercises for future use.

"Thriving Under Pressure"

An examination of the intangibles that facilitate great performance under extremes of pressure. The workshop is organized around three themes:

1. Confidence, which leads to Trust, Adaptability, Mental Agility, and Resilience 2. Energy, which allows for Sustained Preparation and Emotional intensity when needed 3. Focus, which leads to a state of Eagerness and quality execution.

The exploration of these themes will be illustrated with video clips of elite perfomers and real world examples of performance under pressure.

Nate Zinsser is currently the Director of the Performance Enhancement Program at the United States Military Academys Center for Enhanced Performance. He earned his PhD in sport psychology at the University of Virginia and has since become an AAASP Certified Consultant and member of the US Olympic Committees Sport Psychology Registry. Dr Zinsser also provides sport psychology training for the Philadelphia Flyers of the NHL, athletes in the US Armys World Class Athlete Program, and has conducted workshops in performance enhancement for neurosurgeons, musicians and management teams. He is the author of Dear Dr Psych, a sport psychology guidebook for youth sport athletes which won an American Library Association award, five textbook chapters on cognitive techniques for enhancing confidence, and numerous articles on applied sport psychology in trade publications.